You may be one of those 'shoe' girls, the ones that Ooooo & ahhhhhh over shoes they see in the store window, online or on others.Me, I am not one of 'those' girls. UNTIL NOW!!!!!!!!!

Isn't she beautiful? She's all mine...... *sigh*I bought these about a month ago and paid more money than I would normally pay for a pair of sandals, I'm more of a 9.99 flip flop kinda gal.These caught my eye in a clothing store, hanging on the wall.Alone maybe? Honestly, I'm pretty sure my tunnel vision kicked in because I didn't see anything in that store...only these sandals. I didn't notice anything else but these twinkling under the retail spotlights.I swear I just floated in the air over to them, it was similar to the movies when the rest of the world stops and I'm the only one moving.

Then all of a sudden ............screech (like the needle going across a vinyl record)89.99 ??? Has the Queen autographed them? 89.99???No way would I EVER pay that much for a sandal, a new foot maybe but a sandal??I walked away with my sister, biting my lip contemplating a crazy purchase, totally out of character for me...should I? Shouldn't I?My sister pulled me back to reality, made me feel better about not spending $100.....she's good like that.

But they were still in the back of my mind.Like unicorns & fairies, these were not a reality.Why was I yearning for those? That wasn't me, I've never done that before, if I could live barefoot I would. Right there and then I knew. I knew what it felt like to be one of THOSE girls that are obsessed with shoes.You have to admit, that perhaps in the past a Greek Godess wore something similar....ahhhhhhh...swoon.....

Then it happened......I walked into a big box shoe store, the world froze as I rose up and floated to the twinkling gems. Unicorns & rainbows, fairies taunting me 'buy them, 'buy them'.Then all of a sudden ............screech (like the needle going across a vinyl record-again!) I sighed as I flipped them over...$54.99, that's $35.00 cheaper. "hmmm"I pulled them out of the box, put them on secretly wishing they were uncomfortable, $55 for sandlals was still alot of moola.They looked so pretty on and the felt good - darn it!I walked around the store wearing them while I shopped for flip flops.They still felt good.....*phfft* I turned to my sister. She started talking me out of them, "comfy now but they will fall apart after wearing them twice, $55, gems will fall off, $55, rope sole will probably hurt my feet, $55" - she was doing a good job at turning me. I digressed.

But then............. something happened.My sister saw the twinkle from my eyes disappear, my smile fade and the change in my demure."Wellllllll" she said."If you wear them only once a week over the next 11 weeks, that's only $5.00 a wear" Hmmm... I thought, corners of my mouth staring to turn up."If you wear them once a week in May, June, July & August, 16 weeks approximately $3.50 a wear" and then the kicker "If someone said would you like to wear these gorgeous sandals today? I'll only charge you $3.50 to wear them all day long...." Ok, Ok..... "You're good" I giggled with delight."Besides" she said all proud of herself "I'm sure you'll wear them more than once a week". I was satisfied and they were coming home with me!

So to all you 'Shoe Fanatics', it's normal to have a photo of sandals as my screen saver.....right?*sigh* - love you Suzy! xo (my wonderful sister)